Turfgrass Science
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| Program Planning - Salt Lake City The ASA-CSSA-SSSA Meeting at Salt Lake City, UT is approaching more rapidly than I thought possible. I would like to start this Newsletter with notification of a few things before the meetings start. Proposed Golf Outing on Saturday, Oct. 30 - Canceled Dr. David Huff and Dr. Mike Casler were trying to put together a golf outing for Saturday. Unfortunately the course they hoped to get did not come in at an acceptable price range. Neither had time to pursue it further. We do have lists of courses in the area if anyone would like to golf. Monday Morning/Aft., Nov. 1 Graduate Student Oral Paper Contest Monday Aft./Evening, Nov. 1 C-05/GCSAA Reception. C-05 and the GCSAA will be co-sponsoring our reception this year immediately after the afternoon session on Monday. The GCSAA will then be presenting their new Professional Development Initiative to all interested members. This is critical for all educators since it will explain their new classification system, continuing education, and certification programs. Since C-05 Members will be critical in |
providing education to current and future
superintendents to meet these goals we hope you will attend this meeting
to hear about the proposed program. Tuesday Morning, Nov. 2 Graduate Student Poster Paper Contest Tuesday Afternoon, Nov. 2 Symposium Business Meeting Thursday Afternoon, Nov. 4 5:00 - End of Oral Sessions Program Planning - The Process For those who have never been through the process of setting up the program for this meeting I thought I might give you some insights into how this is done. It may make Dr. Jeff Nus's job next year a little easier, although I have found our Division, since it is so active, is harder to put together than most Divisions. It may also prevent the large number of you who have papers on Thursday from performing mayhem on me. Everyone who is in this boat should already know this based on their Speaker Notification Form. Do not worry those of you on Thursday afternoon. We have a full schedule of papers on Thursday so you have at least a few people in the audience. |
| I had made the decision to group the Graduate
Student Oral Papers and Poster Papers together, so after receiving the
Title-Summary Forms I sent out a letter asking for all students wanting to
be in the contests to notify me by April 21st. I actually let this
deadline slip for a couple of weeks after this date. The Chair must
then group the papers together by categories, keeping in mind that no more
than 12 papers can fit in a normal Oral Session, with an unlimited number
in a poster session (up to a limit of the available boards as I found out
later). Symposia usually have more time per speaker so they have a
limit of 5 to 6 speakers per session. The other decision I had made
was to try to prevent concurrent sessions, which the society does not
allow until you have filled up every available time slot through Thursday
afternoon. I therefore set up quite a few sessions with the maximum
of 12 papers and tried to place the few shorter sessions at the same time
as out Poster Sessions. I then tentatively placed our Symposium on
Tuesday afternoon, as usual, and set up a tentative schedule for the other
sessions. Then the Chair goes to Milwaukee with all the other Chairs
to set up the entire meeting. The first thing the Chairs all do together is to put together the Symposias, trying not to have any Symposia with the same potential audience held concurrently. In some cases Chairs have also had to commit to certain dates to obtain some Invited speakers so everyone tries to work around these dates. Chairs also trade papers that do not seem to fit in any of their sessions, and agree to be cross listed as co-sponsors of some sessions. In some cases it made more sense to put together certain papers, such as all the molecular papers on Wheat into one session, rather than have some in breeding and some in molecular. All of this gets outlined on a |
big schedule board. Then the Oral Sessions are sketched in trying to
prevent conflicts, such as Forage Grass and Turf Breeding as the same time
and in different rooms. Since C-05 has many more papers and sessions
it is often easier for other Divisions to work around our schedule than the
other way around. After all the Oral Sessions had been scheduled we started scheduling our Poster Sessions. Officially we had been informed that there was no limit on the number of papers in a Poster Session. I had planned on putting all of my Posters on Tuesday and Wednesday Mornings when we had slightly shorter Oral Sessions. However, we quickly found out there is a limited number of poster boards available and the Monday, Tuesday, and even Wednesday blocks were quickly used up. As a result of this we even ended up with posters on Thursday with more of a conflict between Oral Papers. Sorry. C-05 Committees - New Members/New Chairs Needed The Committees of C-05 do much of the work of our division and without their help the Chair could never accomplish putting together the Program. Serving on these committees is an important way to contribute to C-05 and the Crop Science Society. Anyone who would like to volunteer for a committee let us know. Jeff Nus, Incoming Chair, and I would like each of these committees to have a meeting before the business meeting, either in person or by email. Jeff would like to have new Chairs appointed before the meeting for 2001. Any suggestions for Symposia or an Evening Program please relay to Jeff, myself or a member of that Committee. I have removed all names with expirations before 1997. As you can see a few of our committees have all the members with expired membership. |
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED (or arm twisting will be done).
Current Committee Assignments according to my records. Education: Special Symposia: Evening Program: Awards & Professional Advancement: Contemporary Issues: |
Extension: David Kopec (AZ) - 99 - Chair Dennis Martin (OK) - 99 - Chair David Chalmers (VA) Ali Harivandi (CA) Tom Voight (IL) Gwen Stahnke (WA) Gene R. Taylor (TX) Ad Hoc Committees (some have been proposed for Standing which requires By-law changes) Web Page: Turf Directory: (Buy your copies) Slide Monograph: Business Meeting - Tuesday, Nov. 2. Any individuals with proposed items for our business meeting please contact me at srofarm@ibm.net as soon as possible. Committee reports that will take more than a few minutes should also contact me in advance so we can make time in the schedule. Any item taking more than a few minutes beyond the scheduled time will be referred to a sub-committee or the C-05 Board so we can stay on schedule. |
| PREMIER WEB SITE CONCEPT
A concept to encourage the development of in depth information packages that will be web based is being developed by several C-5 members. The concept includes: (a) a means to fund development of information packages that would involve incorporating scientific principles and practical turf management recommendations. These would be targeted to the top turf managers, consultants, agronomist, decision makers, and scientist. To develop in depth packages of this nature would require incorporation/integration of the scientific literature (turf, nonturf) and key popular literature; (b) an easy way to rapidly locate such web packages by use of the TGIF Library at Michigan State as a directory site, and (c) a proposed means of peer-reviewing the content of packages to enhance their status and quality. This aspect is proposed to involve the C-5 Division and will require C-5 action at our Business Meeting at the ASA Meetings. A more detailed explanation of this concept and the proposal for C-5 action will be mailed to members in about a month. Carrow, Duncan, Plank, Shearman, Gaussoin, Rossi, and Usherwood. C-05 Business Meeting Tuesday, November 2, 1999 1. Call to Order - L.A. Brilman 2. Minutes of 1998 Business Meeting - M. Goatly 3. ASA Board Report - T. Riordan 4. CSSA Board Report - L.A. Brilman |
5. Historian Report - J.B. Beard
6. ITS Report - P. Charbonneau / T. Yamada 7. Turf Tour Report - P. Johnson 8. Graduate Student Paper Oral and Poster Contest - G. Snyder 9. NTEP Report - K. Morris 10. Committee Reports 11. Old Business 12. New Business 13. Other Discussion, Nominations, 14. Conclusion of 1999 Term - L.A. Brilman 15. Comments / Adjournment of 2000 Chair - J. Nus |